Jerry Muskrat's Busy Days Begin
Jerry Muskrat decides to build a new house and begins nightly work at the Smiling Pool. Peter Rabbit watches curiously as the pool grows muddy from digging. Neighbors Billy Mink Little Joe Otter grumble, but Jerry keeps digging and stays content in useful labor.
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Terry
Muskrat
Jerry
Jerry Muskrat
Peter Rabbit
Paddy the Beaver
Mr. Sun
Billy Mink
Little Joe
Smiling Pool
Little Joe Otter
T. W. Burgess
Left arm emphasis aids downswing in golf swing
Instruction notes that starting the downswing with a pull from the left arm helps proper sequence. Describes vivid feeling of pulling against tension and cites Bobby Jones liking the sensation. Published in 1933 by Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Bobby Jones
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Summer meals with meat restricted and fresh vegetables
The article suggests trimming meat in summer and using fresh vegetables for nourishment. It recommends a meal idea combining small amounts of chicken veal steak or beef with celery onion and green beans simmered in water for seasoning and tenderness.
When There's Sickness in the House
A 1933 Douglas Malloch poem echoes anxious hope during illness at home. It contrasts independence with reliance on spiritual aid, describing worry, prayer, and the urge to care for a sick child while seeking strength from heaven and the Great Physician.
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Douglas Malloch
WNU
Short Bread Cakes and Odd Fillings
Colonial era recipe roundup lists short bread pastry lined patty pans filled with cake batter then baked. Center cores are iced and decorated with coconut, almonds, whipped cream, and berries for variation. Also included are creamed sardines on toast and orange ice cream with cream and fruit.
Oddities from a 1933 Bell Syndicate trivia page
A garbled 1933 WNU Bell Syndicate service piece offers jumbled definitions and jokes from a classroom or exam setting. It mixes quips about veterans, resurrection by chest punches, John Hancock’s glasses, earth’s resolutions, canals as water streams, fabric warp direction, and Venus as goddess of love.
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Venus
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Hermit Life Not in Nature s Law
A writer describes a girl who lived two years alone on a tropical island by choice for doctor ordered solitude. She rowed to pass ships for supplies and spent days writing thinking and swimming but longed for human company. The piece reflects on how people value others over isolation. 1933 Bell Syndicate WNU.
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Robinson Crusoe
Doctor
Elysium
Bell Syndicate
WNU
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